UNRWA briefs UN Council on Palestine refugees situation in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza
"Over 80 per cent of Palestine refugees in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza live below the poverty line," said UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini.
Lazzarrini told the U.N. Security Council that "in Lebanon, the pressure on the Agency to do more to address the impact of the economic and financial crisis on the Palestine refugee community is becoming unbearable."
He added that "protests and acts of violence directed against UNRWA, are, at times, forcing my colleagues to close our installations."
"Illegal emigration of Palestine refugees is rising," Lazzarini went on to say.
Lazzarini said that UNRWA is facing "an existential threat," as he appealed to Member States who have reduced their funding "to reconsider the impact of their decision on the region’s stability."
26 August 2022, 11:49
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According to all UN and international agencies (except for UNWRA) a refugee is someone who was forced to leave his/her home. Out of the refugees who left their homes in 1948 there are at the most thousands of them left.
Lebanon & Syria - where were the governments for over 70 years. They left them stuck in camps with no possibility of improving their situation.
Gaza - Until 1967 the Egyptians did nothing but to leave them in camps, during the Israeli control, their situation improved, but it fell baqck again after the Hamas control.
Illegal emigration - so UNWRA is against the refugees and their families moving abroad to improve their standard of living, but prefers to keep them cooped up in the camps so that UNWRA can complain about their situation and demand more money from the UN.
27 August 2022, 09:47
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Firstly, I am not getting paid by anyone, but simply use my own common sense.
As I previously stated the only true refugees are those who left their homes in 1948 (after being told to do so by the local village chiefs and imams), so we are talking in only a few thousand at most. They of course will not leave without their grown up children and grandchildren who were born and brought up in Lebanon.
